First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 10850 State Highway 150 in Shepherd, TX 77371-2822. It is one of 15 churches in Shepherd, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1841 · Services in Spanish · ADA compliant
10850 State Highway 150, Shepherd, TX, 77371-2822Phone: +19366283130 · Website: https://www.houstonsfirst.org/campus/downtown
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Counseling Center
- Missions
- Music & Worship
- Adoption, Foster & Orphan Care
- Fitness & Recreation Center
- Houston's First Deaf Church
- First Baptist Academy
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.4% (14.4–26.4%)
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (3.1–12.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Temple Of Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Bridge of Hope Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shepherd United Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shepherd Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Shepherd Pentecostal Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Good Shepherd Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Magnolia Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
- Lake Pool Church — 2.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good Shepherd Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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- Beulah Land Baptist Church — 8.3 mi away in Cleveland, TX
- Calvary Baptist Church — 9.7 mi away in Coldspring, TX